Elizabeth Irwin

Biography

Elizabeth Irwin is a public policy leader specializing in cybersecurity, AI governance, and national security strategy. She currently serves as an AI Safety Policy Entrepreneurship Fellow for the Federation of American Scientists, a Strategy & Statecraft Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a Digital Domain Fellow with the Center for the Application of Grand Strategy. Previously, she was an inaugural AI & National Security Convergence Fellow of the Council on Strategic Risks.

Elizabeth spent more than a decade as a career civil servant in the U.S. Government, most recently as Senior Director for Strategic Risk at the Office of the National Cyber Director within the Executive Office of the President, where she led federal efforts on regulatory harmonization, critical infrastructure resilience, and supply chain risk management. She also held policy roles in the Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer in the Office of Management and Budget, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. She began her public service career at the U.S. Department of Defense with an advisory appointment to the National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force.

Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Science in Communication from Northwestern University, a Master of Public Administration in National Security Policy and a Master of Arts in International Relations from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and a Master of Arts in Security Studies and Military Operations from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.